1.
ANDERSON, Holly.
Lily Lou.
NY: Purgatory Pie Press, 1986.

First edition. 4to. 11 pp. Fine in blind-printed paper-covered boards and very near fine dust jacket. A novel printed using ten different typefaces on Amora paper. Printed letterpress by Dikko Faust, designed and edited by Esther K. Smith. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Smith, Faust, and Anderson.
$75

2.
ARENDT, Hannah.
The Life of the Mind: Thinking & Willing.
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1978).

First editions. 258 + 277 pp + indexes. Two volumes, both fine in fine dust jacket. Housed in fine publisher’s slipcase. Arendt’s last work, prepared for publiction and introduced by her friend Mary McCarthy.
$75

3.
AUSTER, Paul.
Why Write?
Providence: Burning Deck (1996).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. 58 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Auster. Seven short essays.
$125

4.
BERRIGAN, Ted.
In the Early Morning Rain.
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970.

First edition. Small 4to. [104 pp]. Hard bumps to bottom edge of front and rear cover, else near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Berrigan, who added “for Michael Brownstein” on the copyright page, and “+ Mike” to the dedication page. Finally, Berrigan has added two words to the poem “Heroin.”
$750

5.
BERRIGAN, Ted.
Red Wagon.
Chicago: Yellow Press (1975).

First edition. 73 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip to the base of the front flap fold. INSCRIBED by Berrigan on the front free endpaper, “Dear Ron [Kitaj] / if you don’t have this, / please have it with my / regards and much / affection, / Ted.”
$350

6.
[BERRIGAN, Ted]. Ringold, Francine. ed.
Nimrod. Volume 20, Number 1: Oklahoma Writers.
Tulsa: University of Tulsa 1975.

183 pp w/notes on contributors. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Prints Berrigan’s “Poem for Today.” INSCRIBED by Berrigan on the first leaf, “Tom — here’s one of my / first poems ever– / Love, / Ted / See p. 126– / Also my first poem ‘Open Field’.”
$75

7.
BLINKO, Nick.
Iron Lung: Sexless // No Sex.
[Reno]: Prank Records [2007].

First edition. 17 x 11 inches. One horizontal fold, else very near fine. Promotional poster for Iron Lung’s first LP, featuring cover art by Nick Blinko. Best known for fronting the amazing “anarcho-punk” band Rudimentary Peni, Blinko has also written and illustrated three books, and is widely-known as an “outsider” artist.
$75

8.
BLUME, Bernhard Johannes.
Einige halluzinative Schraffuren.
Berlin: Edition Hundertmark (1978).

First edition. [15 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Drawings with brief corresponding texts. One of 300 copies.
$25

9.
BRAUTIGAN, Richard.
Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mining Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar.
NY: Delacorte (1969).

First printing of this edition. 112 + 108 + 138 pp in one volume. Light toning along top edges, else near fine in like dust jacket that is also toned along the spine and extrems. Review slip and author photograph laid in.
$250

10.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Luck.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 102b.
$200

11.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
Three Poems aka Three by Bukowski.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992.

First edition, lettered & signed issue. [4 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and very near fine unprinted white dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 131c.
$550

12.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.
those marvelous lunches.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993.

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Faintest toning along spine, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 133b.
$200

13.
BUKOWSKI, Charles and Diane Wakoski.
The Last Poem & Tough Company.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow (1976).

First edition, numbered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and near fine unprinted white dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski and Wakoski. Krumhansl 53b.
$350

14.
BURKE, Clifford.
A Chiroxylographic Book.
[Anacortes: Margaret’s Press, 1981].

First edition. Single long sheet folded seventeen times accordion-style and bound between cloth-covered boards. Fine paper slipcase with the title calligraphed in ink along the spine. 7 x 3 ½ inches, closed. Fine. An abstract calligraphic “text,” designed to be hung by a loop of string at the crown of the spine.
$75

15.
CALVINO, Italo.
The Silent Mr. Palomar.
NY: Targ Editions, 1981.

First edition. 25 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A short story translated from the original Italian by William Weaver. One of 250 numbered copies on Fabriano Roma paper SIGNED by Calvino. At the time of his untimely death, Calvino was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer.
$500

16.
COHEN, Scott.
Actual Size.
Berkeley: Arif, 1971.

First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies. Eight prose poems. An early Arif title.
$45

17.
COLP, Norman B.
An Old Saw.
(np): [Hand & Mind Books] (1982).

First edition. Single long sheet folded to make a nine panel accordion book. Fine. Text spells out, “One picture is worth a thousand words” via a series of photographs of single hand-held printed cards.
$25

18.
CREELEY, Robert.
The Dogs of Auckland.
[Buffalo]: Meow Press (1996).

First edition. Horizontal 32mo. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Hannah Creeley. One of 300 copies printed on the occasion of Creeleys’ 70th Birthday Celebration. Dated (Buffalo 10/18/96) and INSCRIBED by Creleey to Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, “For Charles and Susan / with my love / Bob.”
$100

19.
CULLEN, Deborah. ed.
Bataille’s Eye & ICI Field Notes 4.
Santa Monica: Institute of Cultural Inquiry (1997).

First edition. 127 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Essays, artworks, and research related to Bataille’s novel STORY OF THE EYE.
$35

20.
DeLILLO, Don.
The Word for Snow: A Reading.
NY: Karma/Glenn Horowitz Bookeller (2014).

First trade edition. Small 4to. 26 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover image and six internal photograph by Richard Prince. A one-act play by DeLillo, first performed in 2007. New, at publication price:
$35

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